question de droit
The verdict
“question de droit” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Question qui établit la légitimité d'un fait.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | question de droit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛs.tjɔ̃ də dʁwa\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “question de droit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for question de droit is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛs.tjɔ̃ də dʁwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Question qui établit la légitimité d'un fait.".
No misspelling variants are generated for question de droit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is question de droit, spelled Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -D-R-O-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Question qui établit la légitimité d'un fait.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -D-R-O-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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